Besides larger tugboats like Urger, the Canal has a fleet of nearly identical smaller ones called dredge tenders, or usually just “tenders” like the unidentified one to the left in the photo below.
Here’s a set: Tender #1
Tender #3 stern and
bow and
at work moving Urger out of dry dock.
Tender #4 in February 2014, and
tender #4 after being electrified, and
at work in Utica this summer.
Tender #6.
Tender #7 summer and
bow in winter, with an unidentified tender (registry at MB 5900??) and tender 4 in the distance.
Tender #9 profile and
three fourths.
Tender #10 on the hard and
assisting a dredge.
Tender with identifier ending in 0209,
. .. 0308
. . . 0313 aka Dana?
Dana again.
Again, I need to dig into the history of this class of Canal vessel. What number was this?
and why is it here? How many others are there?
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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April 24, 2021 at 8:41 pm
tugboathunter
The dismantled tender in the last two photos is Tender #8. The 0209 is Tender #5 and the 0308 is Tender #2.
July 18, 2022 at 3:49 am
tugster
Thx, tugboathunter.